The photos below are of a car that was used locally (way back) – but had has survived the last 25+ years dormant in panel shops and sea containers.

The local number plates on the car were issued in 1966, the Fisher body plate indicates an early September 1966 build date, so the car was probably imported new. It may have come through the old Exmouth US army base in the remote north….as many cars did in the day.

The car was converted to right hand drive (as was the obligation back then) – and the initial inspection shows a good quality conversion.Other than a power top – the specification is a pretty standard 140Hp/Power glide combination.

I’ve bought the car to save it, but I’ll need to do some further assessment before I figure out if it’s a restoration project or not.

A guy in Victoria built his Monza to RHD spec a few years ago. Article w/ photos on his work in the April 2008 "Communique" - available online to CORSA members.

Corvair were built in both USA and Canada up until 1966, but with the A.I.R (Air Injection Reaction anti-smog) engine, It was built to comply with original sale in California, the only state that required any engine controls.In the USA Corvairs were built in Michigan at Willow Run, and were also built in Los Angeles area at Van Nuys.The Fisher Body plate will have LOS stamped on it if it was built in California. (likely)I've also got a 1966 Corvair Corsa with the A.I.R. system originally installed as the car was sold new at Washburn Chevrolet in Santa Barbara, California.However, mine was built during May of 1966, after the Van Nuys plant had stopped Corvair production.Of course all the engines were produced in TonaWanda, New York and shipped across the USA to the plant in California.In my cars situation, they were installing those A.I.R. engines in Corvairs at Willow Run and shipping the entire car out west.

From the pictures shown, nothing would make it a non-project to me. I see floors, they are usually missing here.

For future note, alternator has wrong pulley and is missing a rear bracket. You will find lots of little things like this (and holes in air cleaner) as you proceed. Come here for information if needed.

Those front turn signal assemblies look like non-Corvair parts. Not just the lenses, but the whole assembly looks different, like off another production car of the time. Keep them!

Nice one!Looks like a great project.The conversion is a bit like my old '68 Impala SS.Car was bought new by an Australian dealer from an American dealer in LA. Doco for car showed it was sold to the Melbourne dealership and never registered in the USA. Was shipped here and converted to RHD by a specialist firm (forgot which one?). Because it was brand new, the conversion involved reusing as much of the original car as possible, rather than using local RHD parts .. hence it had the original LH dash cutup and reconfigured to RHD, and also used the LHD steering box that was boxed into the frame rail on the RHS and the steering gear reversed .. as was typical for the weird conversions at the time.Looking forward to hearing the progress on this one